New Brunswick man’s fight to ‘free the beer’ lands in Supreme Court

“The decision would significantly undercut provincial and federal powers,” argued Francois Joyal, a lawyer for the Attorney General of Canada.
“I understand the province is going to create revenue,” said Comeau. “They were given the right to do that by the federal government. But they weren’t given the right to take away my right to shop wherever I want, if the price is cheaper.”
“It’s like bank robbers saying, ‘Your Honour, it’s true I robbed the bank but I really needed the money,'” said Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. “If the
Constitution says there shall be no barriers, the fact the provinces make money from barriers is no argument at all.”

Naturally all the Provinces, Municipalities and the Feds are fighting this tooth and nail.
Via, NewsHubNation

On Oct. 15, 2015, a Mountie burst through the front door of an office in Richmond, carrying a battering ram and with a rifle slung on his back.

On Thursday, Joshua Wong, 20, Nathan Law, 24 and Alex Chow, 27, were jailed for six to eight months for unlawful assembly, dealing a blow to the youth-led push for universal suffrage and prompting accusations of political interference.

The article is full of them.

China has signed an agreement saying it will stop conducting state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at stealing Canadian private-sector trade secrets and proprietary technology.

A Senate committee voted Tuesday to delete a so-called escalator tax on alcohol from the federal government’s budget, defying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s insistence that only the elected House of Commons has authority over budgetary matters.
Good. The Senate doing the job they’re paid to do for the betterment of the country with a less partisan and ideological focus. Let’s hope the Senate as a block approves this amendment because no gov’t should be allowed to have this type of perpetually increasing tax.
Now, if only the Senate could do something about the out-of-control spending by the Liberal gov’t. I guess we have to get them to actually vote first.
Oh, and PM Trudeau? Get stuffed, you’re temporary and the Senate is not.

It couldn’t happen here, they said.
Fortunately, we’ve top people looking out for our interests.

A B.C. Supreme Court ruling will send shock waves through the arm of the Canadian real-estate market that is powered by foreign capital, say immigration lawyers. […]
The B.C. decision is a stark warning to real estate agents, notaries and lawyers who fail to ensure that sellers of properties are truly tax residents of Canada, said David Lesperance, a tax and immigration lawyer based in Toronto.
“This truly is a game changer,” said Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland.
“It’s a precedent. Real estate agents can now get a knock on the door from the taxman, asking for the (capital gains) taxes that should have been collected by Ottawa, because the agent failed to make adequate inquiries.”

National security officials were particularly concerned about O-Net, according to a source familiar with the 2015 assessment, because they considered the Hong Kong firm effectively controlled by the Chinese state. A corporate presentation prepared by O-Net in 2015 indicates more than 25 per cent of its shares are owned by a company that is a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned China Electronics Corporation.

Canada can have Trump address our supply management or Maxime Bernier, which would you prefer?
Their second letter to PEOTUS Trump.

In a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, US dairy groups said that Canada’s “protectionist” trade policies are intentionally designed to block imports from the US and are in direct violation of commitment made under the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization.

Have fun on the Tim Hortons circuit, Mr. Trudeau.

Now, what does this remind you of?

“We didn’t realize the LCBO considered this a licensee sale,” Korberg explained in an interview with CTVNews.ca. That means the LCBO charges the vineyard as if it has sold the bottle to the LCBO for distribution, then charges them to buy it back. “This is a bottle of wine that has never left the property. The wine in the bottle is made 100 per cent by the grapes grown by our own property, by us, and I have to give half the cost of that bottle to the LCBO in order to sell that wine by the glass on my own property,” he said.

China CITIC Bank has filed a lawsuit in Canada to try to seize the assets of a Chinese citizen the bank claims took out a $10 million loan in China then fled to Canada.
In a first of its kind attempt at intercontinental repossession, the bank is looking to seize numerous Vancouver-area homes, valued at at least $7.3-million, along with other assets, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver on Friday.

h/t Colonista

This is a interesting article on the politics, economic and military realities regarding the nations in and around the South China Sea.
Grab a coffee.

Colby Cosh;

Vancouver is becoming more prominent on all our constitutional tiers because of the pervasive sense that Canadians are being driven out of the most prestigious, picturesque parts of the city by fast-rising prices. Which could just be a matter of Vancouver transitioning to the status of an expensive global alpha city like London — a hemispheric capital, a new Hong Kong to replace the now communist-dominated old one.
I say “just,” but not everyone wants Vancouver to be an offshore Chinese city.

In total, the City of Edmonton has a $9.4-million stake in the building, equipment and other assets leased to Greys Paper Recycling to run its recycling operation.
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“We wanted them to be successful but we never became an investor so we don’t have investor’s risk,” Iveson said.